Rebel Land: Among Turkey’s Forgotten People is an immersion in the beautiful district of Varto - a place left behind by Turkey’s march towards modernity. Varto is, in many ways, medieval in its attachment to race and religious sect, and acclaimed author and journalist Christopher de Bellaigue explores the violent history of conflict, between Turks, Kurds and Armenians, that still defines its inhabitants today. What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? Mistrusted by all he meets, and applying investigative flair and fluent Turkish, de Ballaigue begins to unlock enigmas of jealously-guarded taboos and seeks out some answers.